A person who prepares instruments or materials for the purpose of use in committing the criminal act set forth in Article 73-3, paragraph (1) or (4) is punished with imprisonment for not more than 3 years or a fine not exceeding 500,000 yen.
第七十三条の三第一項又は第四項の犯罪行為の用に供する目的で、器械又は原料を準備した者は、三年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
The preceding paragraph also applies to a person who acquires or provides the information of a residence card electronic or magnetic record for the purpose of use in committing the criminal act set forth in Article 73-3, paragraph (4).
第七十三条の三第四項の犯罪行為の用に供する目的で、在留カード電磁的記録の情報を取得し、又は提供した者も、前項と同様とする。
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who keeps unlawfully acquired information of a residence card electronic or magnetic record for the purpose of use in committing the criminal act set forth in Article 73-3, paragraph (4).
不正に取得された在留カード電磁的記録の情報を、第七十三条の三第四項の犯罪行為の用に供する目的で保管した者も、第一項と同様とする。
An attempt to commit the crime referred to in paragraph (2) is punishable.
第二項の罪の未遂は、罰する。
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residence card electronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「在留カード電磁的記録」
The information recorded electronically on a residence card under Article 19-4(5).
Short name set inArticle 19-13, paragraph (1)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.